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http://www.JonathanLittlePoker.comJonathan Little is a professional poker player who has won over $6,000,000 playing tournament poker over the last 8 years. He also plays high stake cash games on a regular basis. He owns and operates the poker training site, FloatTheTurn.com. He is part of 3bet clothing, InstaPoker and BluesharkOptics. Please follow him on twitter @jonathanlittle. Please email any questions to support@FloatTheTurn.com.

This hand came up in a $1,000 World Series of Poker event I last year where I raised to 400 out of my 11,000 effective stack at 100-200-25 from middle position with 9s8s and an older, fairly straightforward guy called in the small blind. The flop came 9h-8d-5d, giving me top two pair. He checked, I bet 700 and he called. The turn was the Kd, making the flush possible. He checked, I bet 1,700, he raised to 3,400 and I called. The river was the 2c. He bet 2,100 and I called. Continue Reading ..

Quite often, when playing the major tournament circuit, you’ll find yourself with no chips at a final table despite recently having a decent shot at a title. When you go from having lots of equity to none, crazy things start happening in your mind. I’m going to let you into my world and enlighten you to what I do to stay sane when things go wrong when there is a lot of money on the line. Continue Reading ... (Visited 573 time, 3 visit today)

One of the first things I tell my new poker students is to not use card protectors, which comes as a shock to some of them. They vividly recall a time when the dealer mistakenly mucked their hand, costing them a ton of money, and a card protector would have saved them. While it is obviously a disaster to get your hand mucked, a card protector is not the only solution to protecting your hand. Continue Reading ... (Visited 3,082 time, 9 visit today)

While a high amount of your profit, especially in soft or small buy-in tournaments, will come from getting maximum value from your strong hands, occasionally you will need to run a well-timed bluff. I played a hand in the recent $3,500 WPT event at Borgata that illustrates this point. Continue Reading ... (Visited 1,893 time, 6 visit today)

The following hand took place early in Day 1 of the $3,500 buy-in Borgata Poker Open WPT main event. I was pleased to find myself at a table that should have been quite good for me because my opponents were clearly playing in a blatantly straightforward manner. Despite this, I found myself down to 24,000 from my initial 30,000 chip stack, mostly due to making a strong, but second best hands a few times in a row. Continue Reading ... (Visited 1,379 time, 1 visit today)

Everyone has an easy all-in preflop but they all opt to limp instead. Talk about passive! Then, A-9 flops the effective nuts and check-raises, allowing his opponents to fold. Don’t let them off the hook!
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I was recently told about, a poker hand from a $1,000 buy-in tournament that illustrates a fundamental mistake that many amateurs are unaware they are making. With blinds at 800/1,600 with a 200 ante, a loose, but straightforward player raised to 4,000 out of his 56,000 effective stack. A tight player called in the cutoff. Our Hero decided to rera

Joe raises with with A-T to 25% of his starting stack but then folds to a 3-bet. Do you make this play on a regular basis? How does it work out in your games?
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I was recently told about a hand from a $500 buy-in live tournament that illustrates an important concept that many amateur poker players fail to fully understand. With blinds at 500/1,000 with a 100 ante, our Hero raised to 2,500 out of his 50,000 effective stack on the button with Kh-Qc. Only the big blind, a generally tight and extremely straightforward 50 year old man called. Continue Reading ... (Visited 1,510 time, 1 visit today)

I have recently been spending a decent amount of time working on my turn and river strategies. It is somewhat easy to play in a relatively straightforward manner and not do anything horribly wrong, but if you want to succeed at the highest levels, you simply must be willing to make what may appear like an optimistic bluff from time to time, often when you find yourself with one of the worst hands in your range or when you block the nuts. On one of my recent poker trips outside of America, I m

A fun hand commences at Stones Gambling Hall when one player makes a thin value bet on the turn and the other sticks it to him by raising with a draw. Would you find the call with second pair on the river?
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I found myself on the bubble of the $10,000 buy-in 6-handed WSOP event. This bubble will be remembered by all involved because it lasted three and a half hours. There were two very short stacks of 15,000 (3 big blinds) who were clearly trying to sneak into the money. Their presence forced the all players with medium stacks to play a snug strategy because going broke before someone who has 3 big blinds on the bubble is a disaster. Continue Reading ...

Somewhat deep in a $1,500 buy-in event at 1,200/2,400 blinds, our Hero raised to 6,500 out of his 105,000 effective stack from first position with Ac-Ad. Only the reasonably competent players in second and third position called. The flop came 9c-7s-3d. Hero bet 12,000 into the 23,100 pot. Continue Reading ... (Visited 2,061 time, 1 visit today)

Once again in a $5/$5/$10 cash game, loose, splashy action results in an insane outcome. When someone is known to be a bluffer, don’t fold to them!
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2018 is coming to a close. Congrats on surviving it! Today I wanted to share my top 5 posts of 2018. If you enjoyed them, please share them with your friends! My 10 Most Influential Poker Players
No one is an island. Without stumbling into these 10 players, I would not be the person I am today. Continue Reading ... (Visited 1,884 time, 1 visit today)

Two flush draws square off in a large pot at $5/$5/$10 no-limit. When both miss the river, which will come out victorious? Would you make the hero-call on the river with the weak pair?
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I recently witnessed a hand in a $1,000 buy-in poker tournament that illustrates a few mistakes that many amateurs make on a regular basis. With blinds at 300/600, the amateur called (limped) with a 33,000 stack from first position at a nine-handed table with Ad-Th. While A-T may seem like a decent hand because it contains two big cards, you are certainly better off folding it from early position because if you either limp or raise and face any amount of aggression, you could easily be domina

A fun hand breaks out in a $5/$5/$10 cash game at Stones Gambling Hall. JL flops the nuts but then FakeLies rivers a flush. Can JL make the fold? Would you make the fold?
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I have been told quite a few times that I should have more face time with the people I work with, so we took a trip to Vegas. It was awesome! We worked hard and played poker even harder, including a win in the poker tournament for $8,000!
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Recently I have been reviewing hands from small stakes poker tournaments for some of my private students and it seems like their opponents (amateur small stakes players) check-raise in exactly the wrong spots. In general, you want to check-raise the flop when you can extract value from many inferior made hands, when you can make many superior hands fold, or when your marginal value hand plays poorly on future betting rounds, usually because your opponent is overly aggressive and the board wil

This post is a tiny piece of Michael Acevedo's upcoming book Modern Poker Theory. I had the pleasure to see an early copy and it is excellent. You will not want to miss this ground-breaking book! Passive Exploitation Does GTO play make money against bad players?
In a HU situation, if one player is playing optimally vs a suboptimal opponent, any deviation the weaker player makes away from GTO to a worse strategy can only cost him value, which will in turn be gained by the optimal

...or watch if you want advice on holding onto your money from poker legend Mike Sexton.
Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and know someone it may benefit, please share it with them. Mike and I both want to help people not make the same mistakes we did. Be sure to check back next week for another educational blog post. Continue Reading ... (Visited 611 time, 1 visit today)

After bubbling the $25,000 event, I was a bit bummed, but that is fine. My emotions don't matter anyway! Let's run hot in the $5,000 Main Event please!
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I recently asked on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook if they would rather have free WSOP Main Event buy-ins for the next 20 years or play heads-up against a world-class heads-up player for $500,000. Here is my answer:
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I am always experimenting with new technology. I recently made a QuizBot that sends you one poker hand quiz each day through Messanger. Click here to check it out.
I would love to hear your thoughts! Feel free to share it with your friends! Thanks for checking it out and be sure to check back next week at JoanthanLittlePoker.com for another educational blog. Continue Reading ... (Visited 1,687 time, 1 visit today)

I discuss making a deep run in the PartyPoker WPT $5,000 buy-in Main Event at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada. Will I win my third WPT title? Watch and see!
Thanks for watching this vlog series. Next up for me is the PartyPoker Caribbean Poker Party, including two $10,000,000 guarantee events! Maybe the run good will continue! Continue Reading ... (Visited 350 time, 1 visit today)

I review hands from the final table of a $300 buy-in, $30,000 guaranteed event from Stones Gambling Hall. This hand demonstrates the power of preflop aggression.
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I discuss playing the PartyPoker WPT $5,000 buy-in Main Event at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada. Can I get in the money?!? I also had fun at the Halloween party and grinding a bit online on PartyPoker. Featured pros include Kitty Kuo, Ari Engel, Alex Fitzgerald, Mike Sexton, and more! Check it out and let me know what you think!
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The final table of the $10,000 buy-in PartyPoker event comes to close. If you are enjoying this live poker format of Weekly Poker Hand, please let me know. If you have any ideas for ways I can improve it, I am all ears!
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I am in Montreal, Canada for the PartyPoker WPT series at Playground Poker Club. The city and club are both amazing! Will I win the 2,500 person $500 buy-in event? Watch and see!
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In this blog post, I am going to share with you five mistakes most amateur players make on a regular basis. If you stop making these mistakes, you will immediately see an increase to your win rate. Overplaying marginal made hands
Almost without fail, every time I play a major tournament where lots of people satellite in, I see an amateur vastly overplay a hand like A-A after the flop. They see a flop of J-9-5, think they have the nuts, and strive to get all-in. In reality, when 300 bi